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SWTWC: Notes Chapters 4 -14 Describe the storm – what is coming? What do people sense about it? Why do people keep thinking about boyhood/youth? Tetley – cigar store owner Crosetti – barber Christmas song – incongruous (explain) “The wrong shall fail, the right prevail” GOOD and EVIL - - - -which shall win? “Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show” pandemonium = a place marked by choas and disorder shadow = a second image of something/shaded/undefined dark = cloaked and scary/without goodness and light Constant images – shadow and dark Mr. Dark = The Illustrated Man

SWTWC: Notes Chapters 4 -14 Describe the storm – what is coming? What do people sense about it? Why do people keep thinking about boyhood/youth? Tetley

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SWTWC: Notes Chapters 4 -14Describe the storm – what is coming?

What do people sense about it?Why do people keep thinking about boyhood/youth?

Tetley – cigar store ownerCrosetti – barber

Christmas song – incongruous (explain)“The wrong shall fail, the right prevail”

GOOD and EVIL - - - -which shall win?

“Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show”pandemonium = a place marked by choas and disordershadow = a second image of something/shaded/undefined dark = cloaked and scary/without goodness and light

Constant images – shadow and darkMr. Dark = The Illustrated Man

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“The most beautiful Woman in the world”:-first carnival image of temptation-woman in ice –represents temptation/sin

*wanting what you can not have * DESIREWho sees the block of ice?

Charles HallowayTom Fury

Iron pieces- signs and symbols throughout history that made people believe that they are safe

Halloway Family – not very close, but they seem content and completemother – happy and caringfather – dissatisfied and unhappy at home *at the library???

Nightshade Family – just Jim and his mothermother – sad and has had a tough life/worries about Jim leaving father – took off and is not aroundsiblings - died

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Carnival – three inconsistencies with the carnival*Oct 24th (usually end after Labor Day) *3 AM - calliope music at night (usually arrive at dawn)

body’s at low tidesoul is outblood moves slow; nearest death you’ll ever be save dying

(hospitals)*silence (usually noisy hustle and bustle)

(personification – skeleton canvas skin=human strength/(it’s alive)Balloon!?!? Mirror maze - waiting

Train – whistle “protests of a billion people dead or dying”-calliope church music, no one playing

-BALLOON??-imagery – spider, water

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women versus men: sin/temptation

- Who is more likely to give in and be tempted?

“She is immortal. She has a son.” –ch14

-mothers live on, bind eternity with their children (“live forever”)

Character Development:

Roles: Charles – insightful advisor

Will – protector and bodyguard

Jim – risk-taker